The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-12
WOMEN'S DOINGS.
A Kind of Photography that is Daily
Becoming More Popular.

Becoming More Popular.
New YORK, June 11.-Composite photog-
raphy is becoming every day more popular.
This years graduating class at Vassar gave
me the other day glance at what perhaps
it would be fair enough to take as a type of
the educated girl of % or % Everything
in the composite tones down and fades and
blends until the resultant picture gives the
average features of all who have posed be-
fore the camera The combination of the
VasSar faces gives new one that is soft
ened as all composites are, but in no way
indistinCt in its outlines. 1t is like no one of
the graduates and yet it represents thirty
seven. The senior face as brought out by
the sunlight is a somewhat regular oval
with straight nose, large eyes and rounded
girlish features a little thoughtful but not
| over-grave. The forhead is rather high and
the hair soft and smoothly drawn back,
fluffy tendril or two escaping about the
brows, but without the suspicion of a crimp
or bang. 1t is an interesting face and one
that 81 viii carry home as a unique SOuVe-
mir A second composite, also of feminine
| faces, for which q sanitary science club of
| Boston sat, EXHIBITS what one seldom sees in
composite, the decided predominance Of
one face, seeming, though dozen or fifteen
young women sat for it, modified likeness
OF perhaps the most strongly marked set of
features belonging to any member of the
club. The process of taking a composite
photograph is not difficult, and the ait is
practiced with success by quite a number of
amateurs.
A NEW DEPARTURE IN SHOPPING.
a new departure in the line of shopping
for out-of-town families has been inaugu-
rated in New York of late which bids fair
| to put moderately profitable industry into
the hands Of women possessed OF some TASTE
plenty of patience and a gift of bargaining.
Women here and there have made purchases
as agents for cOuntry-bond customers and
| turned a few dollars commission time out of
mind, but the old idea is taking new shape
and bids fair to develop on a far more am
bilious scale. The present plan is that of
| the shopping bureau, managed by a woman
of business turn and gifted with tact for
! getting on with people as well as purchasing
| judgment. To her one may mail an order
for silks, gloves, laces jewchy, bonnets
anything that requires careful supervision
III the buying, which order will be turned
over to corps of regularly employed par
! chaserS, women all, whose business it is to
| look to the interests of the PARKWAY house
| hold, catch at personal tastes. sometimes
| with an instinct that seizes upon your color
| feeling and your verest whinls and capriceS
! from trick of the handwriting and hunt
| up pretty things at reasonable prices, max
| ing Use of opportunities that one could
hardly come upon by sending direct to any
| firm.
! The notion may have been imported from
| abroad borrowed from the thriving French
agencies that do Paris shopping for ladies in
| all quarters of the globe, or it may have
! sprung up independently in our soil At any
| rate the first New York woman who sys-
tenatized her business and established bu-
reau is doing "a business that may amount TO
! $50, 900 at the end of her first year, and |
! doubt if one doesn't hear of multiplication
of agencies and larger figures before long
A good share of the trade is necessarily in
matching shades. obtaining one article to
| harmonic with another, looking up odd bits
and fine goods which the dealers in small
towns do not carry; and balancing commits
| sion against discount to the agency, the
! country cousin can buy at the same prices
as her city friend The business is one that
calls for some small capital to start it, but
given that and a little common sense and
energy it may prove valuable addition to
the resources of the city woman with more
| leisure than money-making ways of en-
ploying it. The scheme has promise at any
! rate, but every new employment for women
requires time TO start il and bring the bust
ness courage of the non-businesS sex up TO
| the point of making any venture in an UNI
tried bath.
A PROPOSED NEW CLUB HOUSE.
| The Nineteenth Century Club unluckily
seems GGined TO disagree over that pro-
| posed new clubhouse which, if once erected,
would be the ideal of its sort in the country
with doors open TO women as well as men,
! typifying as perhaps one may not effect in
| the present stage of civilization, the millen-
NAL social life of the sexes. The question
of womdo' S clubhouse comes up again and
| again, but is always nipped in the bud, not
~ any lack OF clubbabeness in women, but
tecause they are as yet more comfortably
Sclubbablc ON a small and informal scale
\ The new Meridian Club, which promises TO
be one of the most successful of the women's
clubs Of New York and in whose organiza-
ton Mrs. Rosster johnson has taken
prominent part, not only limits its member
ship but eschews all organization each MEM
| Der presiding at the meetings in turn. So
rosis prefers 20 hold its sessions at belmont
cos rather than in headquarters of its own,
and this in spite of the fact that Mrs.
| Thomas its President) only complaint Of
| the members that so far from being bound
together by few ties, the club occupies too
much OF their time, and quite too much is
! expected in the way of keeping up an init
mate social intercourse outside OF meeting
days. IL is always the impulse of woman's
| club TO set its membership Limit as low az
| 100 or $50 10 preserve that freedom of dis
ctlSsion which few women not used 10 public
! speaking feel in larger assemblages, and such
limitation of numbers limits the means TO
work with. The need OF a central clubhouse
that might serve as rendezvous for It's
members and visitors from other cities. that